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Miss Silver Series, Fiction, Crime & mystery
A witness who remembers nothing is in mortaldanger- classic Miss Silver in stunning new packaging
A young woman regains consciousness and finds herself on some cellar steps. At the bottom of the steps there is the corpse of a dead girl. She cannot remember who she is, what has happened or why she is there. Terrified and confused she manages to find a way out and as she flees she runs into Miss Silver, who offers to help her.
A letter in her bag is the only clue to her identity. But by investigating what has happened to her will she find herself in danger? Can she trust the letter writer? And who is the girl in the cellar?
Praise for The Girl In The Cellar
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Miss Wentworth is a first-rate storyteller - Daily Telegraph
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Miss Wentworth's plot is ingenious, her characterization acute, her solution satisfying - Scotsman on GREY MASK
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You can't go wrong with Maud Silver - Observer
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...some of the best examples of the British country-house murder mystery - Alfred Hitchcock Magazine
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Miss Silver is marvellous - Daily Mail
Patricia Wentworth
Patricia Wentworth was born in Uttarakhand, India but as a young girl moved to London to study at Blackheath High School for Girls.
After writing several romances she turned her hand to crime fiction. She wrote dozens of bestselling mysteries before her death in 1961, and is recognised as one of the mistresses of classic crime fiction.
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